Mu Weiwei put the brocade box on the table, and everyone looked over curiously. They saw that the brocade box contained a piece of something about five or six centimeters long, almost as thick as a large female finger, with a yellow color, and on the surface
It is as rough as coral, giving people the impression that it is a dumpling made of gold dumpling skin, except that this dumpling seems to have been gnawed by a dog, and the overall shape is somewhat like a dog.
Liu Cui'e stretched out her hand and tapped it gently, then asked hesitantly: "Isn't this a gold bar?"
"Haha." After hearing Liu Cui'e's words, Lu Lingfeng burst into laughter: "This is not a gold bar. Gold bars are not as valuable as this thing."
"It's not a gold bar." Liu Cui'e said the wrong thing and smiled a little, but she was still a little confused. This was obviously a gold bar, so why wasn't it a gold bar?
When they heard that it was not a gold bar, everyone present looked at Lu Lingfeng, as if asking what it was if it wasn't a gold bar. Of course, Chen Ran had to exclude it. He still looked at the piece in the brocade box.
thing.
Others couldn't recognize it, but he could naturally see it. Although he had never seen this thing before, he took a look and recognized that this thing was a piece of nugget gold.
Nugget gold is a natural gold nugget produced from veins or placers, which means it is a naturally occurring gold nugget. This natural gold is named Nugget gold because its shape resembles a dog's head.
Nugget-headed gold is a good thing. Countries all over the world are proud of having nugget-headed gold. This kind of nugget-headed gold is completely rare and hard to find. Once found, it will be kept as a treasure.
It is said that during the Qing Dynasty, in order to win the favor of Lafayette, local officials wanted to dig up a piece of gold nugget as a birthday gift for her. They mobilized many people to look for the gold nugget but could not find it. The day of her birthday was getting closer and closer, so they finally had to
If you give up, you can see how rare this kind of thing is.
The texture of natural gold nuggets such as nugget gold is not pure. It generally contains small amounts of other metals, with silver being the most common. Others include copper, iron, platinum, etc. Large natural gold nuggets are particularly rare and can only be found by extremely accidental opportunities.
get.
Nugget gold is sparsely distributed in the world and is not easy to come by. However, because gold is expensive, it is regarded as a treasure among treasures. Finding nugget gold is often a matter of chance. Once nugget gold is discovered, it often causes a social sensation.
Before this, Chen Ran had never seen a gold nugget. Unexpectedly, Lu Lingfeng in front of him actually found one. This was a good sign.
Out of curiosity, Chen Ran took the brocade box over and watched the gold nugget grow.
The three members of the Mu family looked at Lu Lingfeng, but Lu Lingfeng did not say a word. This was a show of force. Not to mention Chen Ran couldn't stand it, even Zhao Ying couldn't stand it. He glanced at Lu Lingfeng and smiled.
, said: "Auntie, this thing is called nugget gold."
"Nut-headed gold, I know that..." When Liu Cui'e heard it was said to be dog-headed gold, Liu Cui'e immediately uttered a sigh. There are still many stories about dog-headed gold among the people. There is a river in Liu Cui'e's hometown village, and there is a river in this river.
The story of Nugget Gold.
"What do you know?" Liu Cui'e was about to tell the story about the gold nugget circulated in her hometown village with great interest, when Mu Laoshi suddenly glared at her to prevent her from being embarrassed and conspicuous anymore.
Liu Cui'e glared at Mu Laoshi angrily and closed her mouth, but she stretched her head to look at the golden dog head held by Chen Ran.
"What? Brother Chen has seen this kind of thing before?" Seeing Chen Ran turning over and over to observe the gold nugget in the brocade box, Lu Lingfeng asked with a smile.
His words also caused everyone in the room to focus their attention on Chen Ran, and for a while, the room became silent.
"I've seen it before, but I've never seen it before." Chen Ran shook his head noncommittally, weighed the gold nugget in his hand, looked at Lu Lingfeng, and asked calmly: "Your piece of gold nugget weighs about fifteen taels, right?"
"I didn't realize that Brother Chen is still an expert. Your estimate was very accurate. It's exactly 782 grams."
Hearing Chen Ran's words, Lu Lingfeng was surprised. He asked Chen Ran casually, if he understood this thing. He could tell from the moment he opened his mouth that Chen Ran seemed to understand something.
, he felt energetic. He had just picked up the leak, so he naturally wanted to show off.
Liu Cui'e and Mu Laoshi didn't understand, so there was no point in him showing off. At most, he was telling them how much money he made in front of them, surprising them, but the value of nugget gold cannot be measured with money at all.
To put it in perspective, although it gave him a sense of accomplishment to shock Liu Cui'e and Mu Laoshi, it did not satisfy him. What would satisfy him would naturally be to show off in front of experts who also understand this industry.
"Brother Lu is so lucky. It's more than 700 grams, so the value of this gold nugget is huge." Chen Ran didn't disappoint Lu Lingfeng. He said such a sentence in a dignified manner, which made Lu Lingfeng laugh.
Laughed loudly.
"I found this nugget of gold when I was passing by Zhongdu. I paid it according to the market price of gold. It cost me 160,000 yuan."
"Sixteen thousand?"
Hearing the price quoted by Lu Lingfeng, Liu Cui'e and Mu Laoshi were immediately shocked. Even Mu Weiwei was also surprised. They all looked at the gold nugget in Chen Ran's hand again, seeming to be sizing up why this piece was so...
Worthy of money.
"One hundred and sixty thousand?" Chen Ran nodded: "The leak that Brother Lu picked up is not small."
Lu Lingfeng laughed: "A friend of mine offered 1.6 million to buy this treasure of mine, but I didn't sell it."
1.6 million?
Not to mention Liu Cui'e and Mu Laoshi were dumbfounded this time, even Mu Weiwei was frightened. For her, 160,000 yuan was an unimaginable amount of property. Someone offered this broken stone 160,000 yuan.
Won't you sell it? This is simply unimaginable to her. Even a piece of gold like this is not worth so much money.
Raising his head, Chen Ran looked at the gold nugget in his hand and said, "It's true that it can't be sold. This thing is something that can only be found but cannot be found..."
"Brother Chen is talking about it. It seems that Brother Chen knows a lot. Not everyone has such an opportunity to be able to collect a gold nugget."
Before Chen Ran could finish his words, he was excitedly interrupted by Lu Lingfeng. The significance of finding a piece of nugget gold cannot be measured in money. This thing has the meaning of attracting wealth. First of all, the nugget gold itself has
Gold, gold has always represented wealth in China. There is also a folk saying that cats come to poverty and dogs come to wealth. The shape of nugget gold itself is quite similar to that of a dog, plus it contains gold.
, it’s still so rare, and in the end, it’s like, whoever gets such a thing, it means that he’s going to get rich, let alone getting it, even if he just sees it, it’s a good sign, wait.
Just make money rolling in.
Therefore, Lu Lingfeng was very proud to be able to find such a thing. This was not even a matter of missing something, but that he was able to come across a piece of nugget gold and let him get it. That is enough to show his good luck.
Good fortune, good character...
With a slight cough, Chen Ran looked up at Lu Lingfeng, changed the topic, and suddenly said: "I don't know much about this thing, but I remember I saw someone using a gun in the movie "Golden Dog".
A special method can be used to imitate nugget gold. However, this imitated nugget gold was eventually discovered. How was it discovered? I remember that it seemed that the nugget gold was put into a glass filled with lime water.
, and then seal the opening. If there is no reaction, it is real. If it bubbles, it is imitated using that method. The imitation method seems to have been studied by a master named so-called in the late Qing Dynasty.
It came out, but it was later lost.”
Lu Lingfeng was stunned as soon as Chen Ran suddenly changed the subject. When Chen Ran said it, Lu Lingfeng's expression changed drastically. He quickly grabbed the gold nugget that Chen Ran had put down and took out a magnifying glass towards the light.
After observing carefully, I didn't see anything for a while, so I felt relieved.
Even though he is not very old, he has superb antique skills and is very famous in the domestic collecting circles. Although Chen Ran is famous, it is only in the circle of the Central Plains, while Lu Lingfeng is in the circle of the Central Plains.
It is somewhat famous in domestic circles. This is because Chen Ran has not left the Central Plains after all. The most famous places in the domestic collecting circle are Beijing and Mingzhu.
Lu Lingfeng was still very confident in his own eyesight. The significance of nugget gold cannot be measured by money. He was quite proud of finding this nugget gold, but he didn't expect Chen Ran to suddenly say such a thing.
In a word, although he was confident that he would not get it wrong, Chen Ran's words also made him feel like a thorn in his heart, so he frowned and looked at Chen Ran: "Brother Chen, how do you say this?"
"Brother Lu misunderstood, I just suddenly thought of this."
Chen Ran chuckled and shook his head. That was not the case. At first, when he observed the nugget, he didn't notice it. But when he couldn't help but use the energy aperture to detect it, he was surprised. Normally, the nugget was like this.
The thing is basically naturally formed, and the energy aperture detects carving or workmanship, that is, craftsmanship. Naturally formed ones cannot be detected, but this piece of nugget gold strangely detects an energy aperture. Obviously, this
There is a problem. One aperture is more than a hundred years old. Even if the energy aperture can detect naturally formed objects, there is no doubt that no nugget gold will be formed in this short period of time. The result is self-evident.
Metaphor.
After realizing that this nugget gold was not naturally formed at all, Chen Ran thought about it and came up with a way to imitate nugget gold.
Chen Ran saw this imitation method of nugget gold when he was reading at Mr. Ma's house.
That book was a manuscript written by Mr. Ma himself. Mr. Ma himself translated it from an ancient letter that he found. It was clearly about celebrating the birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty. In order to win over Lafayette, local officials
They once wanted to dig up a piece of nugget gold and give it to her as a birthday gift. They mobilized many people to look for the nugget gold but could not find it. The result was that they could not find it. However, one of the officials at that time did not find the nugget gold, but found a person who could.
The master who imitated Nugget Gold is called Nugget Gold, or this is his title.
The crafts passed down by the ancestors of China include thirty-six categories and seventy-two lines, as well as the eight outer categories of gold point, beggar, thieves, thieves, bucket-fighting, mountain walking, fire-drawing, and water-gathering. In fact, everyone does not
You know, in addition to these, there is also a very ancient and mysterious craft that has been spread among the people, and that is gold mining.
The currency in circulation in ancient times was generally gold and silver, so how were gold and silver mines discovered?
This is related to the Jinmen Caimen. The Jinmen sect is a sect whose goal is to find gold veins hidden in the mountains and rivers. This method of finding gold veins can be said to be able to turn stone into gold. Once leaked, it will inevitably cause disputes in the world.
Therefore, the Kinmen faction acts in a low-key and mysterious manner, and many outsiders do not know about it.
The highest honor among the Kinmen sect is the gold nugget. Whoever finds the most gold nuggets will get the title of gold nugget among the Kinmen sect.
The nugget gold of that generation was not only good at finding nugget gold, but also developed a method of imitating nugget gold. This official found the nugget gold and forced the nugget gold to forge a piece of nugget gold.
This official was just a seventh-grade sesame official. Obviously, an official like him could not meet Lafayette just because he wanted to, so he first wrote a letter to his classmate and friend who was a senior official in the court.
, as a result, the letter was not sent to his classmates and friends, but was leaked, which later led to a murder. The nugget gold master also escaped, and the matter was settled.
, even outsiders have no idea what happened, and there is no record in history.
Mr. Ma accidentally found the letter, and later checked a lot of information and wrote the manuscript. On the day Chen Ran visited Mr. Ma, he was reading in Mr. Ma's study and happened to see this manuscript.
As for the movie "Golden Nugget", although it does have such a plot, the method of forgery is not the same as that of Nugget Gold. However, the identification method is somewhat similar, so Chen Ran used it.
The reason why Chen Ran spoke out about this was because he was a little unhappy with Lu Lingfeng showing off in front of the three members of the Mu family. They didn't know much about antiques. What kind of show would you make to them?
Dissatisfied, Chen Ran revealed the matter angrily.
